Risks and benefits of screening for intracranial aneurysms in first- degree relatives of patients with sporadic subarachnoid hemorrhage

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 341, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 1344-1350

  Raaymakers, Dianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCREENING TEST; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR FAMILY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0344931924     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199910283411803     Document Type: Article

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